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[Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call for papers]
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WORKSHOP ON AUTOMATED HEURISTIC DESIGN:
CROSSING THE CHASM FOR SEARCH METHODS
to be held as part of the
GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009)
July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Sunday)
Delta Centre-Ville Hotel
Montreal, Canada
Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009
PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP: March 25, 2009
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Organisers:
Gabriela Ochoa, Ender Ozcan and Marc Schoenauer
Full details can be found at the workshop Web site:
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gxo/hhgeccoworkshop.html
This workshop aims at bringing together researchers from different sub-fields of computer science,
artificial intelligence and operations research that have recognized the need for developing
automated systems to replace the role of a human expert in the design and tuning of search
heuristics, and who are, therefore, interested in developing more generally applicable
methodologies.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
Hyper-heuristics (e.g. systems to build systems)
Algorithm selection and portfolios
Parameter setting - parameter control - parameter tuning
Off-line techniques (e.g. DOE, DACE, Racing, SPO, ...)
Adaptive and self-tuning algorithms
Optimization of meta-parameters
Design of class-specific heuristics (e.g. using Genetic Programming)
Foundational studies (e.g. heuristic understanding)
The authors of accepted abstracts will have the opportunity to extend their work and submit it for a
special issue of the Journal of Memetic Computing
(http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12293).
We aim for a full-day workshop. The discussion will also be seeded by the following invited
speakers:
Prof. Darrell Whitley
Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, USA
Dr. Natalio Krasnogor, Associate Professor and Reader
School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK
Submission Format:
We invite submissions as extended abstracts of 2 to 4 pages in ACM format. The abstracts should be
submitted in PDF format directly to the following e-mail address: [log in to unmask] Templates
and final file preparation instructions:
http://www.sheridanprinting.com/typedept/gecco1.htm.
Important Dates:
March 25, Wed. Workshop paper submissions deadline
April 03, Friday Workshop paper decision notifications sent
April 17, Friday Camera ready deadline for accepted workshop papers
April 27, Monday Registration deadline for presenting authors
July, 09, Thur. Workshop day
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